intensifies its assault on the hideouts of islamic militants somalis border with algeria locals in the liberated cities claim the campaign has come at a high cost to civilians. the most comprehensive allegations yet to release. cia prisons around the world emerging a report released by top american n.g.o.s. and the iranian president flies into egypt for the first time in more than three decades and a visit seen as an attempt to improve ties between the two regional heavyweights.

from the new center here in moscow this is r.t. with twenty four hours a day french military forces have stepped up their offensive on rebel bases in northern mali with troops moving into the city of kid the last bastion of islamist insurgents around eighteen hundred soldiers from chad have also join the operation meanwhile two senior islamic leaders have been captured fleeing strikes on the border with algeria reports now from the war country. wirelessly that is their money because they know what i look at today in this town in mali everyone is celebrating the capture of two important islamist leaders one of them is mohammed the head of the demon a group which retired a content book too for months particularly violating the rights of women he was captured along with bob leader of the movement for unity and jihad in west africa say he was taken north of keep close to the border with algeria the capture of

these two leaders demonstrates what everyone knows the city of go into book to buy havens of security in a dangerous wilderness we were ourselves detained by the mali an army when trying to get to the city of any movement towards the north has been strictly forbidden since last weekend when six million soldiers were killed by explosives planted by rebels on the roads leading there was this risk affects the stability of the country distances in mali are so big that it is next to impossible to travel safely on the roads so now the region lacks food medicine and fuel specifically in this part of the region in there are about seven thousand refugees children suffer the most unless medication is brought in without the centers treating malnutrition like the one we saw in mopti i would face tragedy i mean. please tracing malnutrition is a necessity in today's critical situation negligence was the cause of malnutrition

before but now and then this crisis most children are suffering tizen as it happens in every home where children don't get enough care and could die. alternative syrians are being tried to deliver supplies to timbuktu v.n.d. share and spread them to the north from there we also saw many people come to donate blood so desperately needed in hospitals a christian community in the central region of mali has been collecting supply see that as. the war has taken on a religious meaning and when that happens the first. they're hunting us those who are directly linked with religion. despite the fact the war is moving away the situation remains critical to a country filled with refugees and. the health and food crisis is putting eighteen million people at risk of malnutrition is there pressure on us but what is what am i going to hear gonzalo launcher. for r t meanwhile mounting reports from cities

that have been liberated suggests that freedom has come at a cost french airstrikes have reportedly resulted in a number of civilian casualties. he's a research a from the international he just returned from the water torn country and says the campaign raises many concerns. but we were able to to register was that to use tonight's violations including a charge to killings we collected testimonies from a large variety of people who told us how. some people are arrested in the town of severity and then brought in short of where they were treated and then froning to the well later we had also stories about people who had been arrested and some of them disappeared and regarding the care of these of the civilians who were killed in the town of qana what we are asking most of the french

and the million armies is not they should or should be a commission of inquiry just to to know the circumstances of the death of the five people who were killed including the children because these people need a potion there should be kind of warnings given to the civilian population so that they could they could leave the was due to seek shelter elsewhere some of the groups been leaving some of the towns in mali and they may be seeking refuge in other places i mean we have been lucky about the hostage taking about kind of of some territory beginning taken into a stage and a concern also what we are concerned about is that there may be a prisoner tax agreement of civilians who may be accused of collaborating with the armed groups so we are concerned about that. the iranian president mahmoud

ahmadinejad is in cairo on his first visit to egypt to more than thirty years he's attending a muslim summit and is discussing security issues with the country's leader mohamed morsy iran also wants caro on board with such issues as syria and its own nuclear program journalist neil clark told me earlier that tehran needs all the friends it can get iran strongest ally in the arab world has now been serious serious been abroad a lot of iran this is the reason why the pro israel lobby why the americans why are the saudis etc so keen to talk about a sad now there's no such moment the syrian government is about what we're it for iran would be even more isolated than it is today and the area in a very dangerous position so that's what makes good sense for iran to be trying to build bridges with cairo are there financial motives behind this meeting where we've got to believe the economy isn't bearing in mind the situation there in iran with all those sanctions appearing to have a quite an impact on the iranian economy do you do they both need each other i

think they do and i think from morsi point of view i think as we see harty going to rest in egypt but people are very happy with how things have gone legacy and carry on. and shift on iraq will be one way that she can say to these people look i'm not just a us puppet i'm going to be different here so i think from his point he could get popularity at home by taking a more conciliatory line towards iraq and the rallying point if you course they've been pretty good on house i mean the pro israel lobby has been very successful in getting the u.s. and other countries to pass tougher and tougher sanctions on iran he really can't he's a really bad state so iran needs all the friends he can get there's no reason for iran should be isolated there's no proof it's developing nuclear weapons it's got a peaceful nuclear energy program which there's no evidence to the contrary so therefore it's it's wrong but it should be totally isolated. u.s. president joe biden joined the british prime minister david cameron for a national security meeting earlier today in downing street it was attended by british military chiefs intelligence officials and political leaders the american

v.p. arrived in the u.k. monday following visits to berlin and paris for top level talks. as this report. for the vice president he is known for sometimes putting his foot in his mouth it could of almost being another gaffe but some a very quick to point out when he said that he talks of being delighted to have been invited to that meeting and of having spent half his life in security meetings in the u.s. but people are quick to point out you don't actually have a spoke for years on the u.s. national security council he can be forgiven for that possibly he was referring to other security commitments but during his visit to downing street this is what part of what he took part in he was invited to this national security council meeting it was chaired by prime minister david cameron and it's thought that what was on the agenda and talks about there were issues such as syria afghanistan iran and north

africa now it's not unheard of foreign nationals to attend u.k. national security council meetings although it certainly is not common practice now perhaps that's a sign of as jay biden made mention to the special relationship that britain and the u.s. enjoy he spoke of the u.s. and britain as having the most open relationship that they have with any country in the world well that's all well and good but is a satisfactory relationship everyone want to talk more about that i'm doing by a member of the u.k. independence party stephen wolf thank you very much joining us from relationships that's going to that is it really beneficial day for everyone i'm not sure about chile i mean it should be we are and we are two countries that actually share common values in terms of our legal systems our language the way that we look at business and it should be but over the period of the years that we've had this special relationship since winston churchill's first quarter the fruits we've seen

lots of arguments between ourselves and those of you state clearly there was a huge to. from the way that the british public did not want to get involved in afghanistan we also had a disagreement in the way that we did not want to get in vietnam and recently we've had president obama suggesting that the british people should know. that democrats . have a referendum of whether they should be. of the european union so clearly the special relationship is often tested but there's lots of people here don't even believe that relationship is special. coming up later in the program this hour the battle of negative press the u.k. deflecting a wave of eastern european immigrants with. just why they'd be better off staying at home that's.

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thanks. continues here in our to the gulf kingdoms of bahrain in kuwait has seen fresh public cries against the country's unelected roots who have been stepping up their crackdown on dissent for the last two years calls for more rights and democracy are increasingly met with the rests and brutal force as the conservatives refused to concede while the west is accused of turning a blind by its key arab allies is reports. life in the gulf used to look like this. but the black gold hidden beneath the

sands transforms the arabian states from inhospitable deserts came storing structures of glass and steel physical testaments to their wealth and power in a wider region known for its tinderbox tensions the gulf monarchies have stood out for their relative stability and for an oil dependent west eager for a military stronghold to counter on the gulf became a strategic away service petro dollars have helped to insulate the gulf against economic hardships plaguing other states but not against popular uprisings now the gulf monarchies as a whole have been struggling to stave off the effects of the arab spring with varying degrees of success kuwait has largely seen as the most tolerant of the gulf countries but the worry is that the trend could be reversed activists say that it already has been political gatherings of more than twenty people are banned as are political parties and when the last opposition dominated parliament challenge the ruling authorities it was dismissed voting rules were changed to ensure critics say

a more compliant parliament speaking out against the system has landed many activists in jail as for those who took to the streets to protest. we were beaten up by the special forces team and the sound bombs and but on and after the march whoever is on the street isn't just being detained and thrown into jail it's a struggle activists in bahrain are all too familiar with. three days after egypt's former president was ousted from power protests began in both reign like the kuwaitis they weren't demanding an end to the monarchy but more representation at a violent crackdown saw a shift in some of those demands but there's still you got to stop it is that the elite in different areas against the regime against that because should i gainst the situation. one thousand five hundred prisoners we have.

every day we have a lot of. security forces surrounding gave us i think the people like that the houses as an other gulf states the monarchy blames the unrest on a radical minority they are hardliners they want to see regime change they want to implement their own style of government and impose on the rest of the population of bahrain a system of government that is totally unacceptable these demands called for. a westminster style democracy captain head of style democracy in golf but critics disagree saying the protesters simply want their governments to listen i want to comes to violent crackdowns he says westminster and capitol hill simply turn a blind eye we are the victims because we live in a country which have the u.s. and the united states and they don't get our blood the people they don't care about the humanity they don't care about the bahraini blood they care about the.

weather in baja in saudi arabia qatar oman or kuwait seems like this one are becoming. recently more common but nasa shows like this one. alone isn't enough to insulate the countries from people taking to the streets and demanding a greater stake in their political system and unless the monarchies show themselves willing to listen their stability may prove to be. arty kuwait. you can always stay updated with all the latest news by heading to our website. some of the stories that we have right now people are. clear of chemical toxic chemicals. on the country's east coast. websites the famous agatha christie. expose britain's biggest wartime secret.

speak your language. program documentaries in arabic. reporting from the world talks about fifty yards interviews an intriguing story. visit. the u.s. and south korea flexing their military muscles in the east china sea that's after north korea's recent threat to conduct a nuclear test seoul said the drills are part of regular military training while pyongyang claims it's a plot to attack it. the national campaign to end the korean war says washington's only pouring fuel into the. it's the worst thing you can do under these circumstances is to inflame the situation to conduct these military

exercises that always inflame that use live ammunition on the border with north korea this is inflammatory on a lot of levels and we need to step back these naval exercises it's like a race to the bottom if you will when are we going to get more creative in the way we resolve conflict in this world this conflict gives us such an opportunity with a new secretary of state new leader in south korea we should be pushing for peace suspend these naval exercises and go from there yes there should be non proliferation of nuclear weapons on the korean peninsula but we don't even recognize north korea as a nation have a peace treaty or formal relations to deal with these matters what do we expect israel is reportedly intending to create a buffer zone stretching up to seventeen kilometers inside syria the country's military sources insist the area will belong to syria and then not invading it

wants to place infantry brigades and a number of tanks there the stated aim of the zone is to prevent mortar and rocket attacks coming from inside the embattled country is hoped this would also stop radical groups moving close to israeli territory if assad's government is toppled the security fence is now being erected along the frontier with syria in the golan heights but international relations expert dr walk in thinks that this has very little to do with security. imposing a buffer zone will make israel in the future to. negotiate over withdrawing from this buffer zone rather than withdrawing from the golan heights this is very similar to the attempt of israel in one thousand seven hundred eight to zero and impose a buffer zone in south lebanon where it was the same claim that it wanted to defend its northern border the objective is to annex more territories and at the same time

and at them to threaten the massacres that so if israel expands its domain by another seventeen kilometers this will make it reach close very close to damascus and this is very dangerous to the stability of the regime and with it will give the insurgents like free zone and free base a secure base to launch attacks against the syrian regime so this is in fact the mint of israel. same sex couples won't be allowed to adopt russian children the country's child rights chief was responding after being asked how legislation a gay marriage in france could influence french parents looking to adopt from russia the campaign for and against same sex marriages in france has been escalating the parliament voted in favor of redefining marriage as an agreement between two people just a man and a woman and in the past few hours the u.k.

has passed a bill legalizing marriage between gay couples the russian constitution does not however recognize gay marriage couples which prevents them from adopting russia also has a ban on adoption by american parents it says the u.s. hasn't done enough following a series of russian about children being abused or killed. the u.k. is looking at ways to curb the wave of eastern european immigrants expected at its doors when remaining bold garia are given unrestricted access to the e.u. and twenty fourteen the government's not considering a negative advertising campaign about the country to make it less appealing to potential movers. reports we'll show many things going for our country the english language testing times brilliant history very creative people some of the best universities in the world a great place to do business we need to stand up and shout about how great britain is and get people to come and invest and visit but that's not the message for everyone the u.k. government is reportedly brainstorming ways to dissuade eastern european immigrants

from coming to britain come january twenty fourth teen twenty nine million romanians and bulgarians will be able to live and work anywhere in europe including the u.k. one idea being considered a negative advertising campaign about broken britain while the government considers that some creative brits have been all too happy to expose their nation's flaws for all to see as you can imagine not all the romanians living in the u.k. are cleaning the toilets some of them are highly qualified they've and understudies their so they find this very aggressive and under society campaign as one minister present it a negative ad campaign would help to correct the impression that these streets are paved with gold but even considering how to put off would be migrants the british government has managed to offend not one but two whole countries and now one

rumania newspaper has decided that rather than getting mad it's going to get even instead. the romanian spoof campaign says that since it's so tough in the u.k. brits should come to remain the danes by the british people to come to romania arguing their humor half of our women look like kate and the other half like her. psystar so this is a funny campaign what if you can see behind it there's actually a serious message which is that romania have still valuable resources intelligence and schumer and that region should take advantage of this next wave of immigrants instead of marking them but the debate over immigration in the u.k. is growing more hostile some ministers have suggested limiting remaining in symbolic ariens access to health services and housing when they arrive i think it will look good on us this a country to do something much about but i can see where where the snow is coming from of having

a lot of people coming over here and looking for work and benefits and housing but i doesn't sit well with me really to do something like the immigration story something you want to be careful in talking about offing is a bit silly to be honest because we're living in the union europe which is open for every every kind to it which is you know in the union with the financial crisis getting worse britain isn't as attractive as it was to migrants a decade ago english somehow imagine that everybody in the world wants to come to england because in the new jobs of the most finest greatest country. in which people it is but they seem to forget that in the case of remaining friends and remain as a beautiful country loving warm exciting country to live in today when they produce these statistics about thirty million remain and what are the images that everybody is going to leave and then the last one to light is going to be

a single person left and then it really is nonsensical whether or not the anti britain campaign will ever make it to a billboard near proof the rest is now beside the point the british government has already made newest members feel that little bit less welcome here. artsy london. well we have all te business news after the break for you and i'll be back with more international stories in about fifteen minutes from now stay with us is altie life in moscow. well the british study. time to. go to.

market. why no one should really be happening to the global economy with much stronger or no holds barred look at the global financial headlines. there's a report. it's twenty six minutes past the hour are you watching the business program on archie while come to the show u.s.

credit ratings agency standard and poor's has used to slopping companies with scores that have the power to make them or break them but now it looks like the agency itself is another spotlight it's being blamed for the worst financial collapse since the great depression yes it's the two thousand and eight financial crisis the u.s. justice department is accusing it of being responsible for the onset of the crisis as kitty pilbeam is here to discuss all details so cave what exactly is being accused of doing right well ok so firstly the justice department it yes and pay for knowingly overvaluing these mortgage securities and it's another e-mail which is the important ones in this saying that they hope the sleigh exaggerated the worth of the. cools the financial crisis of two thousand. were flowing to the first federal case against. company is related to the crisis of this kind so

that's why it's in full focus it's the ratings that were made in two thousand and seven these mortgage securities that were then passed on to investment banks then sold to investors who as a result lost brilliance of dollars but it does seem like the timing is pretty rare that happened like five years ago all of a sudden after s. and p. was the rating agency to slash the u.s. sovereign. all of a sudden now i mean it does seem like a bit of a revenge. potentially i mean they would say that's absolutely not the case because this case was actually in progression actually since two thousand and eight so it's because of the complexities because the details of it all that's why it's just come to light just now the wall street journal they were the publication that she revealed the details of it and according to a simply they say that they do deeply regret the consequences of their ratings so

they accept that they want to act not that they knowingly made something of the very good ninety years have completely also to mention the fact that they've also lost out financially because they have actually invested four hundred million dollars into bolstering the quality of their ratings so they've already had a cost on all of this which is army is that they just forked out four hundred million dollars or make it doesn't happen again and then they're actually like damages that they might have to pay if they're found guilty well yeah we don't know the course at the moment but i would imagine it to be catastrophic and if we look at the stock markets already where people are pretty dismal because the actu parent company or hill. s. and p. has already slumped food team descents it just shows you the confidence it's rigged windell didn't. twenty four hours and added to that root is the other credit agency

has dropped ten percent so it's having an effect all round them really the i would say the. players who are making of all. just the image over i guess is we know over the years they've had a real battering in terms of the weight of them they downgraded not just companies banks but also countries and people are wondering does it really matter considering they downgraded the u.s. foreign cost didn't make a difference a move from right big moody's was in the one downgrading the u.s. submarine so i mean it's been it's being punished by association absolutely definitely keep a close eye on the start of the investors might even be predicting them to be the next in the firing line perhaps the losses ten percent would tell us about mark well if if s. and p. is found guilty we can almost be sure that moody's is going to be next in line thank you very much kitty pilgrim and britain's banks face the threat of being broken up into pieces that's after the country's treasury chief george osborne on

tuesday said the banks high risk investment arms are jeopardizing the safety of their retail operations earlier on tuesday spoke with its shock. strategist at e.t.f. capital he said the initiative was a long time coming. basically beefing up its funds for misselling p.p.i. you know so generally at the moment right now there's a big lack of confidence around the banking system that kicked off in two thousand and eight when no one knew when the banks were mortgage banking group an obvious had to go through a bailout and also the collapse of northern rock and that's gone through for not only for the u.k. banking system but for the global banking system so. these measures although they seem like a bit of a preemptive strike by the government. in some way instilling a return of confidence in the u.k. banking sector to look at least from a consumer perspective how many banks do you think actually fall into that

potential breakup category. i mean in the u.k. we've got. in terms of all all the major banks a list banks in the u.k. have major rito. perhaps the exception would probably be standard chartered which has most of its operations outside of the u.k. in terms of. mostly operate within asia and the middle east but the likes of h.s.b.c. rollbacks cotton barclays and lloyds bank they all have major rito divisions especially roll back to scotland lloyds and barclays i think those three are going to be the ones in focus h.s.b.c. as a global footprint specially in asia that they may not be under as much pressure as the other three and i think the big question from people in the market right now is what sort of shape. banking sector we would be in after these these measures come in place exactly and that's exactly my next question do you think it's going to win

back the banks in a negative way as far as making them left competitive on the international market. yeah i think you know i think there's a big concern about that banks have generally been there were at least the u.k. by some to have been generally be risking the balance sheets over the last two years that we've seen the world bank of scotland and barclays. the to do doing a steady job of it member going to continue doing so that they do leveraging him in in better shape than they were a couple years back to raise their cap it's also on a board perspective we can say is in europe for the rest they look like a pretty good look sort of priest he said ranks but at the same time a breakup if they don't comply with these these measures would alter the i mean less tax ability for these banks it's going to i suppose the big key thing for for food for the market right now is this will mean. no investor conference which would mean that to find it harder to raise capital for the house raise capital to fund a very difficult to lend to small businesses small businesses will perhaps then the

cause of the other you are the banks in the world that may have more relaxed measures and rules in order to start getting some money out of. my life out take a quick look at the markets to see where with stand this tuesday in the united states the only place actively trading the sour equities are actually pretty bullish as you can see there thanks mainly to quarterly reports beating analyst expectations something that traders like one of the main news makers is a computer make a dell it plans to go private and deal worth more than twenty four billion dollars a stock is up about one of four percent the sauer over in europe let's see what's going on there the indices were rebounding from their sharp losses on monday in fact we saw the biggest daily gain in about two weeks the main a loser on the currency markets on tuesday was the japanese yen that's after the bank of japan chief said he plans to step down next month the euro is gaining against the greenback on tuesday here in moscow you're seeing the dynamic there the

ruble close the mixed to the currency basket and when it comes to russia equities here were trading in sympathy with global war says hence the gains as you're seeing here. budget cuts and austerity measures they all seem to make europeans so focused on money they're now scrutinizing the salaries of top e.u. officials in fact the staff in the e.u. council is on strike over how much money some e.u. leaders make and were curious to so here goes germany's chancellor angela merkel has a monthly salary of about twenty one thousand new euros which for one thousand euros is her pay as a member of the german parliament president of the european commission has. learning about twenty five thousand euros a month these figures might not actually seem like anything outrageous but the

strike takes place against a bad drop of in to succeed and salary cuts for many a lower ranking european public servants. russia's billionaire alexander lebedev and his son you've gainey have won the license to operate a new television station in london it will be it will base its contents on the stories from eleven of the newspapers the evening standard and the independent the level of team beat four other applicants for the rights to a twelve year license to broadcast to an estimated four million homes other contenders include a former mayor candidate stephen norris and a former channel four chairman lee johnson a london live as it will be called plans to operate from early two thousand and fourteen for about eighteen hours a day mainly focusing on news current affairs and general interest stories in the british capital. and not pull the latest from the city well you can

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mission to teach. continues now and we return to all top story the ongoing conflict and french military involvement in africa let's cross now to analyst patrick henningsen he's joining me. for. french. african troops do you think those troops will be able to keep the situation under control. i think this is a group of countries is being trained mainly by the united states. fifteen equus

nations this is supposedly an african led mission but really if you look under the surface of it all these happenings in the last month or so perfectly into the united states africa directive agenda which has been put in place in two thousand and seven under bush and has really caught pace under the obama administration so it could be a case of this is just an entree for bigger escalation on the western powers in the future well what we're seeing china exacting its influence and of course in investing huge amounts in africa the two are going to clash on that with the u.s. now accepting its influence it's funny because if you read the african documents and they are available online still you'll see that the main one of the main thesis is of the creation of africa is to have the chinese from africa phase one was libya that clearly was phase one and as we can see quite clearly the you know the

refugee problem created by nato's attack and regime change war in libya has created a refugee problem in northern mali and also some of the same al qaeda forces the west nato was coordinating with in libya there are now bits and pieces of them are on marauding through northern mali so you can't divorce what happened last year or two years ago libya from what's happening now well french special forces have secured a uranium mine in asia does that suggest then that the it is actually the pursuit of resources behind what's going on the intervention in mali for example and the us influence behind the scenes. sure you know revise the french is a big nucular fuel company and funny enough or evil is having massive problems with the nigerian government over many things workers' rights construction schedules and they were sort of losing favor with that contract and lo and behold this new crisis in the alley has given the french

a perfect opportunity to get back in but when. it was you know in syria the terrorists are friends of holland they're accusing the terrorists in mali of trying to overthrow a sovereign state but in syria it seems to be ok to overthrow the sovereign state so you know we were there to defeat the terrorists and mali but they were friends of syria this is a hypocrisy that's now open for the world to see a pattern if they're all economic interests at play have these governments monny and yet that they actually want to help to export their was also nice so surely when europe and africa work together that security and stability can be achieved through prosperity. i think they want control you know the west is very concerned that china who's had more or less you know fifteen year head start on them in africa china is going to curry favor with these african nations but so this is

coming with military force create destabilization and most pundits don't have to be a genius to know where this is going it is going to go throughout the central african congo is is the big prize in all this because the u.s. has always favored sort of enemies of congo you know if you look at uganda and you look at rwanda what's going on in the jungles there certainly congo is is one of the richest resource countries in africa and it's absolutely blessed with you know a lot of things that western corporations would like to get their hands on and not pay top dollar for so this is just the start of more regional tensions and military campaigns but the french just saying well this is a militarily successful campaign that protecting that soon they'll be out be able to have authority and it will be finished and not in the country be better off so you're saying this is just the start of major instability in africa. yeah you only have to read the african documents the us african documents to know this is

a long term plan how many times build it we've heard or we're only going to go in for a few months and stabilize the situation and we'll be out what's not going to happen is there going to be permanent french and this is slightly out of nato's range so they're doing this under a new offices and they're going to provide logistical support military trainers hardware build air bases and so you have these different pockets of africa were it west is vying for military station in control already the u.s. has a base and two boutique third launching joe drones from so you have the militarization of the continent of africa so it's a just briefly why lottie got help went off for france to step in but the central african republic didn't get help when it did also as well so why would that be excluded do you think. certainly it's certain countries that have certain interests that have heard the forefront of countries like france united states

britain and so forth so you know it depends i mean look at the government in mali it's the junior military coup that took over a democratically elected president who fell out of favor with the u.s. so again it's the king making nation building and we're going to see more and more of this in africa africa's untapped economically in the west is really racing with china to gain sort of dominance on this continent because of all the you radium of the cobalt the type you know to attain the i'm the lithium all the rare earth minerals the gas the oil africa is absolutely bountiful and this is going to be a battleground in the resource wars of the twenty first century patrick really interesting to hear your perspective on this part of an instant joining me live chief political analyst there in london thanks patrick. fresh allegations of emerge of secret cia prisons around the world of violations that have allegedly been taking place there a new york based ngo funded by one of america's richest men george soros has

unveiled a report which claims to detail the operation of these so-called black sites we get live expert opinion shortly but first artie's going to church can has the details. this is a very comprehensive report prepared by the open society foundations not only do they detail torture techniques that were used at cia secret prisons overseas to so-called black sites but also give a list of countries that one way or another participated in cia secret detention and extraordinary rendition operations including by hosting cia prisons on their territories detaining interrogating torturing going to be using it in vigils assisting in a tour in the capture and transport of detainees and so on so the list includes countries like afghanistan all australia canada denmark djibouti georgia germany syria turkey italy the united arab emirates. united the united kingdom yemen and other countries while

president bush acknowledged that the cia had secretly detained about one hundred prisoners and this report alleges that there were more the u.s. government had only identified sixteen high value detainees italy is the only country where court has criminally convicted officials for their involvement in extraordinary rendition operations tenet is the only country to issue an apology to an extraordinary rendition victim. was rendered to and tortured in syria only three countries in addition to canada and that is swayed in australia and the united kingdom have issued compensation to extraordinary rendition victims this report is rife with human rights abuses and it's clear that high ranking bush administration officials bear responsibility for authorizing human rights violations and yet no one was prosecuted because the u.s. government has classified everything related to its torture practices any

accusation would be dismissed on state secrets grounds. journalist and historian douglas valentine feels that the anti terror measures enforced by america overzealous because the power elite have riding the wave of a myth hoping to sustain it is authorized by the u.s. congress by certain very important congresspeople who believe that they are reflecting the will of the american people in the wake of nine eleven there was a huge outcry in america for vengeance for the united states to prove for the government to prove that it was more terrible than the people who have launched the nine eleven attack and so congress believe it had every fact that the will of the american people authorized to do this since nine eleven the government has been able to maintain this attitude that it's required sort of security to commit crimes as if this is never been necessary before what it exhibits is one of the

illustrate that the government has. since nine eleven more capable propagandizing the american people by exaggerating the threat that exists it or it's a potential way which probably is a state of emergency that really doesn't exist in which the government's able to portray the united states to the greatest military power that ever existed on the planet earth as somehow a victim the person that's being bullied and the truth is exactly the opposite. well that's you up to date for the moment small news coming your way in just a few minutes from now on r.t. with me build stay with us this is mosque. there are twelve cities in the united states in which half of the people with hiv

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